<div align="Center"> <p><b>Lesson Plan Title:</b> How to Bypass Fail Open Authentication </p> </div> <p><b>Concept / Topic To Teach:</b> </p> <!-- Start Instructions --> This lesson presents the basics for understanding the "fail open" condition regarding authentication. The security term, “fail open” describes a behavior of a verification mechanism. This is when an error (i.e. unexpected exception) occurs during a verification method causing that method to evaluate to true. This is especially dangerous during login. <br> <!-- Stop Instructions --> <p><b>General Goal(s):</b> </p> The user should be able to bypass the authentication check.